Dal Maso, GianniZanini, Chiara2005-06-202011-09-072005-06-202011-09-072005-06-20Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 137 (2007) 253-279https://openscience.sissa.it/handle/1963/1686In this paper we study the quasistatic crack growth for a cohesive zone model. We assume that the crack path is prescribed and we study the time evolution of the crack in the framework of the variational theory of rate-independent processes.312529 bytesapplication/pdfen-USPreprint